Art of working glass and mechanism therefor.



No. 787,588. PATENTED APR. 18, 1905.

, s. H. PELTIER. I ART OF WORKING GLASS AND MECHANISM THEREFOR.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 18, 1904.

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PATENT OFFI E.

' SELLERS H. PELTIER, OF OTTAWA, ILLINOIS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of -Letters Patent No. 787,588, dated April 18, 1905. i Application filed August 18, 1904. Serial No: 221,179.

I 0 LIIZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, SELLERS H. PELTIEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ottawa, in the county of Lasalle and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful improvements in the art of forming glassware more expeditiously and cheaper than heretofore and have also improved the construction of mechanism to attain the art, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates, first, to a machine for rolling plastic glass into sheets and, second, to the art of cutting and shaping glass after it has been passed from the rollers of said machine.

In the old way it has not been possible to make certain articles of glass as expeditiously and cheaply as I am able to make them under my said improvements. To attain said desired ends, I-use the heretofore-patented mechanism, No. 508,748, of November 14, 1893, to P. V. Peltier after making certain changes in its construction and additional working.

parts, illustrated substantially as follows, namely:

Figure 1 shows my said new device in side elevation with its gear-wheels removed. Fig. 9. shows the same in plan view having the gears restored. Fig. 3 shows an end elevation with some parts in section. Figs. 4 and 5 show two articles rolled and formed in my new way. Figs. 6 and 7 show two other such articles made under my new artin central cross-section.

Like reference-letters denote like parts in all figures.

The object of my invention, after the preceding statement, will be fully understood through the hereto-following Specification.

The table a is of the old form of said patented mechanism, which is now provided with lugs 6 through which pass adjustable tablelegs 6, which areheld in place by set-bolts r and are held in lugs 6, forming a part of the vertically-adjustable receiving-table 72. Between said table-legs moves the horizontallyreciprocable table (Z, which is provided at each of its four corners with a rigid post q, having a long vertical slot through which passes the cord or wire at, which is held, as shown, on the outside of said slots, and it is vertically adjustable in said slots and made to conform to the verticaladjustment of the receiving-table. The central part of n is wound around'a drum, as shown at 0, formin'ga part of the rollers c, and as the said rollers are turned one way or the other the table (Z moves back and forth. Said rollers cand their apron m are now a fixed part of the receiving-table. At a suitable distance in front of the apron m are erected guide-posts g, also held in lugs b at the sides of the table 03, and on said posts reciprocates vertically a yoke f, connected by links it to levers i, fulcrumed in brackets at f, and to said yoke is attached adie e, which fits over a die 6, placed in a suitable position on the horizontally-reciprocating table d. Between said two dies the glass is cut or trimmed to desired outline and also molded into form and relieved from the said dies in ways usual and well understood in such art.

The operation of my said new device is substantially as follows, namely: A lump of plastic glass Z is placed on the receiving-table Z) and passed between the rollers oand down over the apron m onto the under member 6 of the dies, arranged by means of the parts at 0 to move in timed unison with the glass as it comes down over the apron on. When the die a has stopped under the die 6, the latter is brought down, whereby the glass is trimmed,

cut, pressed, or molded, &c., as such dies may be made to do, as shown, for example, at k, which shows a piece of glass both molded into form and trimmed between the said dies.

By means of my said improved mechanism the glass Z is rolled, cut, shaped, &c.', under a single heat ready for the annealing-oven, whereby the work of makingsuch glass forms as, for example, are shown in Figs. A, 5, 6, and 7 is produced in one operation, and therefore at greatly-reduced cost.

What I claim is 1. The art or process of forming glass into desired shapes-which consists in first rolling glass into sheets, then passing it onto a moving receiving-die and then passing said charged die under its counterpart and therewith both unison the action of said rollers and reciproeating table.

4. The art or process of forming glass into desired shapes which consists in first heating and rolling glass into sheets then subjecting the still hot glass to the action of dies and therewith both cutting and forming the glass 20 while yet in its plastic condition.

SELLERS H. PELTIER.

Witnesses:

WM. ZIMMERMAN, J. F. PARKS. 

